Hit Factory Condos!! grrr

[84K]

Hey everyone. My girl is apartment shopping in the city and she checked out the Hit Factory Condos today. She started telling me about it, and I said, "That would make for an interesting thread..." She laughed and said, "Yeah, For once maybe I'LL be the one on gearslutz ignoring you!"

So, when she comes home tonight, she plans on writing her first post. The whole Hit Factory Condo story sounded interesting from our brief conversation, but I had to get to a session, so I guess I will read about here tonight. Be Nice.

[Sigma]

Originally Posted by 84K

Hey everyone. My girl is apartment shopping in the city and she checked out the Hit Factory Condos today. She started telling me about it, and I said, "That would make for an interesting thread..." She laughed and said, "Yeah, For once maybe I'LL be the one on gearslutz ignoring you!"

So, when she comes home tonight, she plans on writing her first post. The whole Hit Factory Condo story sounded interesting from our brief conversation, but I had to get to a session, so I guess I will read about here tonight. Be Nice.

we were around the corner..53rd and B'way for over a decade..times have changed when we moved in it was the Ed Sullivan Theater... and i used to wear my Sigma Disco award T shirt to skirt the lines [ahemmm] at Studio 54..

Ahh the golden age of recording.. I hear Troy is doing well in his new endeavor..Eddie was a chacaracter to say the least

[treymonfauntre]

message boards should be intimately detached from daily conversation

[Gravity8058]

I just see the fresh young realtor giving prospective buyers the tour:

"This diminutive unit we call, "The Vocal Booth". While only only 25 square ft in size, you're buying a peice of pop rock history. We've even left the orange felt covered walls in original condition. There you can see a stain that commemorates the love between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham!"

[jomo1234]

"This diminutive unit we call, "The Vocal Booth".

In NYC-Real-Estate speak they call it a "Junior One" Imagine a picture of an old phone booth with the heading "Views views views! 4 exposures! Tons of light! Must see!

[XSergeantD]

If she heads back there for another tour, and th realtor mentions people like John Lenon worked here, and a few of the others (I know I've posted on this subject before) please inform them that John was dead before we built the studio at that location. check the other posts on the subject, I know I've discussed this subject before. And if Will is still at the front desk, tell him to give me a ring with an update on the whole disaster, I mean building.

[Rob G]

The craziest(in some peoples eyes) most miraculous thing(anythings possible in NYC) would be if within the next 20 or whatever years they converted it back to being a recording studio. As in this case you'd be surprised what some Manhattan real estate used to be before it assumed it's current function.

Rob G..

[RoundBadge]

They also wanna convert the Capitol Records bldg in hollywood into condos too

[drBill]

Originally Posted by RoundBadge

They also wanna convert the Capitol Records bldg in hollywood into condos too

And what would they do with the echo chambers - make them into underground parking?

[jamieboss1]

i walked by there a few days ago on my way to Sony and it was totally depressing. The sign read something like " Own a piece of rock history". What a terrible sales pitch.
I RAN back to Brooklyn

[RoundBadge]

Originally Posted by drBill

And what would they do with the echo chambers - make them into underground parking?

Well the Capitol studios still have a ten year lease in the building so things are getting akward to say the least.

[djui5]

Originally Posted by XSergeantD

I know I've discussed this subject before.

You're not crazy

Hit Factory..

[strauss]

hmmm, nice place to setup a bedroom studio....
Then you can advertise it as 'The Hit Factory'

[lefthando]

Originally Posted by drBill

And what would they do with the echo chambers - make them into underground parking?

Now THAT is funny!

[max cooper]

If I buy a condo in the Hit Factory building, and I start doing some tracking there, can the neighbors really complain?

[Stitch333]

NYC been doing this sorta thing for decades. On a smaller scale, Robert DeNiro turned the wetlands into condos years ago...but that Hit Factory condo sales website is outta ****ing control...

[octatonic]

Originally Posted by jamieboss1

The sign read something like " Own a piece of rock history".

I reckon I am just going to follow Keith Richards around- bits of him ought to be dropping off him pretty soon.

[Jules]

I find you can get a very good nights sleep in an iso booth!

[RKrizman]

Originally Posted by 84K

Hey everyone. My girl is apartment shopping in the city and she checked out the Hit Factory Condos today. She started telling me about it, and I said, "That would make for an interesting thread..." She laughed and said, "Yeah, For once maybe I'LL be the one on gearslutz ignoring you!"

So, when she comes home tonight, she plans on writing her first post. The whole Hit Factory Condo story sounded interesting from our brief conversation, but I had to get to a session, so I guess I will read about here tonight. Be Nice.

I bet they have nice media rooms.

-R

[84K]

yeah, we never got back to this. I'll ask her tonight and see if she still has anything to say about it.

[Dirty Halo]

And on top of the historical and karmic travisty of turning buildings like the Capitol Records building and Hit Factory into condos... there's the plain OVER "condoization" of the world!

Do we need MORE condos?

In Portland, for example, they have WAAAY over built this psuedo hip condo world downtown and condos literally FLOODING the market... it doesn't take a genius to see that crash coming.

Condos are the future slums.

They will rot. Go bad. Then go cheap. Then the art community will buy them again. Build it up. And the same cycle will repeat.

Too bad in Capitol's case, we're talking a historical piece of architecture and in both cases, studio design and history that will be forever lost and not likely replaced.

-a

[voiceaddict]

Now you see what really happens when you take music out of the schools. Lifeless voids of empty space pop up everywhere.

BTW - sleeping in a vocal booth is some of the best sleep I've ever had, and the only way to catch an authentic, hair raising snore.

[thethrillfactor]

Originally Posted by Dirty Halo

Do we need MORE condos?


-a

We do in Manhattan.

There aren't enough places to live here to begin with.

And to call the Hit Factory building historical in my opinion is a bit of a stretch.

To me the coolest thing about the Hit Factory was the naval type elevator. In my opinion it was run more like some exclusive NYC nightclub. If the bouncers liked you or you had alot of hotgirls with you they let you in.

Mediasound, CBS & RCA were studios that i would consider more "historical" and when they closed in the 80's nobody really cried & whined like people do now.

[84K]

Originally Posted by thethrillfactor

Mediasound, CBS & RCA were studios that i would consider more "historical" and when they closed in the 80's nobody really cried & whined like people do now.

ALAS! That was all PRE-GEARSLUTZ!!

[thethrillfactor]

Originally Posted by 84K

ALAS! That was all PRE-GEARSLUTZ!!

Pre-Gearslutz?

Try pre Digital DAW Gearslutz.

Also the studio auctions back in the day brought out the true Gear-Vultures.

And the Gear-Vultures weren't so Internet friendly if you catch my drift.

It was everybody for themselves.

[u b k]

anyone know what the hit factory was before it was the hit factory?

i'm imagining an anarchistic printing press that specialized in lithographic soft-core bondage offsets and large print slavic translations of the bible, the douay-rheims version (naturally).

before that, a sweat shop where women and their offspring routinely lost delicately proportioned noses and limbs to the flesh-eating sergers, typically getting $1 a week and a firm pat on the ass for their troubles.

go back a little farther and we find the offices of a vicious yellow journalism mogul with a nasty laudanum habit and a penchant for young chinese boys, who coincidentally were available from the tenements just down the block by the river. convenience never goes out of style!

ahh, sweet new york. this is probably the most dynamic living environment on the face of the earth, things come and things go, and when they go they generally get devoured before whisping out their last living breath. so long hit factory, and thanks for adding another beautiful chapter in the colorful wheel that is gotham.


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